Posts by Oneman2Many

Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed

Re: Replaceable modems

OFGEM state that smart meter are physically inspected every 5 years, would be a good opportunity to upgrade them.

Re: Time of Use tariffs

You'll be saving money even if you.carry on your current usage patterns unless you.have.some weird usage patterns. There is the opportunity to save more by changing usage patterns if you want to.

Re: Alternatively...

Not correct, I'm being billed (and being paid export) via reading sent by my home mini device right now.

Re: Alternatively...

The home mini is free, up to you if you want one or not, doesn't do anything aside from offering more granular reporting.

Re: So, smart meter joy is continuing

Yes i know what a genny is and how it works but it should be on a clearly labelled isolator that can disconnect from grid feed.

Next you will be commenting on bi-directional ev chargers.

Re: So, smart meter joy is continuing

It not unusual to have 2 invertors, I have 2 myself due to having an older system on the original FIT and expanded it with a second hybrid invertor, more higher density panels, battery and EV charger. The installer had no issues swapping the meter. Everything is on isolation switches and clearly labelled, not hard to do.

Re: Mesh

Meters are already mesh capable. And why would spend billions on new infrastructure when one already exists ? If 2g was good enough for emergency services, its fine for smart meters

4g isn't going anywhere, Vodafone picked up a 15 year contract to connect smart meters last year.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/08/vodafone-uk-to-upgrade-energy-smart-meters-with-4g-mobile.html

And finally they don't need the bandwidth of 4g, its what is available.

Re: So, smart meter joy is continuing

To be honest, wouldn't consider it much different than having a battery in addition to an Inverter.

Octopus home mini links your smart meter to your internet connection for reporting. However it won't work for all customers with poor signal to the meter or those with no internet and yes there are those with no internet.

Re: So, smart meter joy is continuing

You would think they can read the dual feed warning stickers put on the grid supply by PV installers.

Its not like it's a unique install, there are over a million PV installs in the UK.

Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too

No mention of Landspace who have already conducted hopper tests ?

FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again

My issues is that effectly SpaceX are self-certifying the clearance. I don't have any knowledge of what the behind the scenes discussions are but SpaceX and FAA have said many times that they are continously in contact so I doubt the publish report is the first itteration of it. How many times did FAA push back and get SpaceX to make changes ?

FAA didn't come up with. That is what SpaceX told the FAA what they plan to do There will be more details that SpaceX will have given to FAA.

As per last time, FAA didn't write the report or really have any input. The report is spacex reporting on issues they found and will correct and I suspect most of have already been implemented as there are things like design changes which would take months to implement (or years if you are Boeing). All the FAA are doing is agreeing with SpaceX findings. I can understand why is works this way as SpaceX are the SME on Starship so will know the most about what happened and how to prevent it in future but it does seem to make FAA rather toothless.

Ukraine claims Russian military is using Starlink

Who is telling SpaceX where the frontline is and where it should and shouldn't work ?

As for the terminals, apparently supplied via UAE but mostly likely that is BS.

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

Re: Hmm ...

VeraCrypt doesn't support Active Directory, AFIAK it doesn't offer any support for central key storage or passwords. Probably a major requirement for most enterprises.

I suspect as well that you can access TPM even with it integrated but you are looking at some pretty specialist tools. Looks at what they managed to do with the locked iPhone from the US terrorist.

Re: A brilliant testament to analysis

This isn't a logon PIN, this is a bitlocker PIN which is different and I suspect no organisations have it switch on.

Re: A brilliant testament to analysis

You don't need GPO setting to show the option but yes the user will need to be a local admin which they aren't on most enterprise workstations.

It does need access to the LPC connector, the laptop used had the lanes exposed on a unused connector, other laptops may need chip to be de-soldered to gain access which to do be honest isn't going to stop a determined and semi-skilled bad actor.

It also needs a discrete TPM chip, which has been integrated with CPU since 6th gen on Intel back in 2015 (wonder why a 10 year old laptop was used ?).

Finally if you are worried then you can create a Bitlocker PIN which stops the attack however I suspect the majority of users don't do that.

Suffice to say that it goes to show that if somebody gains physical access to your device then it will be vulnerable.

Rocket Lab is a David among Goliaths in the space race

Re: Which rocket?

Not sure what your point is ?

Booster and Starship both exploded over the Gulf, not part of any national park. Stage 0 did rain debries down in national park but it wasn't the rocket.

I expect more from Peter Beck, he's had great interviews with Tim Dodd and NSF amongst other. He seems like a nice guy and obviously passionate about his company and rockets in general so I wasn't expected snidey remarks from him especially ones that are facturally incorrect.

Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion

Re: Prudent

Who says it won't be pushed out, HLS is only one of many issues that is holding the program up. SLS, Spacesuits, Orion capsule and I'm sure many others.

I assume you were joking about 'NASA had a chat with second place finisher' ? The major partner of that bid has left the consortium, I assume having lost the original competition there has been zero further development unlike SpaceX which would have carried on regardless of winning the contract on not. The contract awarded for 2nd lander is for 2028, it very unlikely they can pull ahead to any time sooner and I'm not even holding my breath about them making the 2028 schedule being a multi company partnership which historically has been a recipe for delays especially taking into account the members involved. So not sure where you get the idea that its some sort of race ?

I am not sure where you think Astrobotic recent lunar attempt comes into it. Its great the work they are doing but human flight is on a different scale to their plans. Assuming they leave the launch services to an established player (SLS, Starship, mayby New Glen) the lander part is billions of dollars to develop and with 2 human rated systems under development is there space for a 3rd player ?

As for Dreamchaser, I am guessing you are confused by its scope and where it would fit into Artimes program. Right now its being developed for cargo. They do have a contract (manybe ?) and potentially funding to provide crew transport services to LEO for Blue Reef so no trips to the moon. According to this site the first flight doesn't even had a date but won't be before 2029,

https://spaceref.com/newspace-and-tech/sierra-space-working-with-nasa-on-crewed-dream-chaser/

Re: Prudent

Where do you draw the line. SpaceX are talking about V2 and V3, does that mean they should wait even though V1 can still produce valid results ?

As for NASA, they have given up on 2025 or even 2026 for Artimes 3. I honestly won't be shocked if the delay landing to 2028 and Artimes 4.

As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix

KVM as the hypervisor is fine but you will need management tools and security hardening for on prem enterprise hosting.

I'm pretty sure that anybody who has been in the industry more than 5 minutes knew this was going to happen based on Broadcoms previous track record. Even before the aquisition, the change to core based licensing pushed costs up but as soon as there was whispers of Broadcom being in the running we knew the writing was on the wall for VMWare. As we have been banging on to our developers and vendors for the last 5 years, the future is CaaS and the hosting solution was never going to be Tanzu.

Its a shame, they have some solid products and there is nothing else that has management tools and 3rd party support that scale for enterprise hosting. Nutanix is OK for SMB but falls shorts when scaled up.

John Deere tractors get connectivity boost with Starlink deal

Re: Starlink subsidy

SpaceX have stated that with the laser links they have global coverage. They looking at more ground stations to reduce latacy and improve bandwidth.

Adios, dead zones: Starlink relays SMS in space for unmodified phones on Earth

SpaceX guy at the astro awards said they plan on having complete coverage by the end of this year, I assume he meant that mainland US will have 24x7 coverage not global.

Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers

Re: The End

The management is not even close what VMWare and shed load of 3rd parties offer. But upcoming pricing changes and broadcoms past history is a big incentive to get off VMWare. TBH, this is a good stick to beat your users to move to CaaS and get off Windows (mainly) and Linux.

Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

Re: Loctite

Never mind how much of a hit the FAA reputation is taking

Hubble Space Telescope is back in the game after NASA fixes gyro glitch

Re: Jared wants to help

Think the plan for the second mission is to test out EVA. Then work with NASA for a.repair on the next mission. Boosting orbit should be pretty easy. Replacing the gyroscopics will be difficult. There aren't any handholds and they don't have an arm to help them on EVA.

Digital memories are disappearing and not even AI or Google can help

Re: Preserve the meaning of our personal past

"Do we really need to ?"

Having put together a photo & video montage for 2 funerals this year and assisting a family member with somebody who has dementia I can say with absolute certainty do not delete anything. What may seem pointless right now can be super useful in the future for your own consumption if not for general public.

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

I thought that already been established by Musk himself ?

Hubble science instruments still out after going down 3 times in a week

Issacman is looking at this as part of Polaris missions. NASA had signed off on a feasibility study last year but not heard of any updates since.

First flight is due in first half of 2024 and they are planning a EVA so will see how feasible a service mission from a dragon capsule would be. Boosting the orbit shouldn't be an issue, NASA installed a mating ring on the last shuttle service to make that easier. The lack of a robotic arm apparently is a major issue for changing the gyros as there aren't any handgrips on Hubble.

BTW, this would be all be paid for Issacman and potentially SpaceX and any 3rd parties as companies such as Axiom who may be able to assist.

Elon Musk's ambitions for Starship soar high while reality waits on launchpad

Beem many years ago that lunar lander variant has landing legs. They will need to ensure that it lands somewhere relativily flat. Be interesting to see if landing engines will be at the top to avoid kicking up debris or at the bottom.

Virgin Galactic sends oldest-ever Brit and first mother-daughter duo into space-ish

Branson made most of his money of VG when sold off $1.4bn of shares just before their value tanked after that f**ked up first flight. I don't think he actually owned much of VG these days.

UK government hands CityFibre £318M for rural broadband builds

Re: Keep some of the money back for 'repairs'.

While everyone is having a go at City Fibre's contractors they are most likely the same people that do OR and VM installs.

Intelsat and SES merger to create $10B satellite giant is off

With SpaceX valued at around $150bn and Starlink making up half of that value should be interesting if Starlink is spun off this year as Musk has implied.

US watchdog grounds SpaceX Starship after that explosion

Re: Most powerful

3 engines shutdown before takeoff leaving 30 engines running at 90% power. With each engine rated at approx 230 Tons that give about 60MN. So yes, the most powerful rocket to take off.

Weird Flex, but OK: Now you can officially turn these PCs, Macs into Chromebooks

Re: arrggh

A few years ago but I converted about 50 Asus netbooks for local primary school to ChromeOS. The WiFi cards didn't work but I found compatible ones for a couple of quid each on fleabay. AFAIK they are still using a few of them today. Flex probably is a lot easier to install than the workarounds I had to use back then.

SpaceX's second attempt at orbital Starship launch ends in fireball

Re: Complexity ≠ Reliability

Yeah, its not clamp at launch time, relies on gravity. Engines start at 50% which is not enough lift off and then throttle up.

STS used explosive bolts and they had multiple instances of the bolds not cleanly separating correctly but fortunately not enough of an issue to stop the launch though once the SRB were lit there was no turning them off.

Re: Why all the cheering before the 10 second countdown?

The Van actually is actually owned by BocaChicaGirl (Mary) but is used by NSF. They have a video of them returning to the van. Its a right off and I'm pretty sure its not covered by insurance, lol. To be honest its a pretty old Dodge minivan and wasn't worth much.

Re: restart supplies

Yeah, they use an electric based system. Probably sensible if a return trip to Mars is going to need multiple restarts.

Re: orbital velocity

It barely went supersonic

Re: Why all the cheering before the 10 second countdown?

There were at least a dozen streams to choose from. NSF Is usually pretty good as is Tim Dodd though he does get excited including shouting "I'm going up in that* shortly before RUD.

Re: restart supplies

You should probably watch Tim Dodds video on how to start a rocket engine.

SpaceX calendar marked with big red circle for 'first Starship launch' this month

Re: I can't wait.

Sadly no hover flip for starship. Its a 'controlled' re-entry and then belly flop into the pacific.

OneWeb lofts last batch of satellites to enable global internet service

I believe Oneweb are getting their kidnapped sats back in exchange for Roscosmos getting some ground equipment back from Kourou which they had to leave in a hurry.

The Moon or bust, says NASA, after successful SLS/Orion test flight

Re: Breaking things

Yes the mobile launch tower has elevators.

Rocket labs have given up on the idea of mid air catch. They are going to recover after splash down, same as shuttle boosters and Falcon fairings.

SpaceX threatened with $175,000 fine for Starlink crash risk paperwork blunder

SN9 exploded in the air ?

No it didn't, it exploded when it impacted with the ground.